Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Live : iv . ii . 11 . 6 Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l'estable ( When
the horse has been stolen , the fool shuts the stable ) . – Les Proverbes del Vilain
. 7 Pride goeth before destruction , and a haughty spirit before a fall . Proverbs ...
Live : iv . ii . 11 . 6 Quant le cheval est emblé dounke ferme fols l'estable ( When
the horse has been stolen , the fool shuts the stable ) . – Les Proverbes del Vilain
. 7 Pride goeth before destruction , and a haughty spirit before a fall . Proverbs ...
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Cowards ( may ] fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be
put out . On the snufj of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains ,
p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our
...
Cowards ( may ] fear to die ; but courage stout , Rather than live in snuff , will be
put out . On the snufj of a candle the night before he died . - Raleigh's Remains ,
p . 258 , ed . 1661 . Even such is time , that takes in trust Our youth , our joys , our
...
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That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i .
JOHN LYLY . Circa 1553-1601 . Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for
kisses : Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows , His mother's doves
, and ...
That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery . Book i .
JOHN LYLY . Circa 1553-1601 . Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for
kisses : Cupid paid . He stakes his quiver , bow , and arrows , His mother's doves
, and ...
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Here is everything advantageous to life . Ant . True ; save means to live . Act ï . Sc
. 1 . A very ancient and fish - like smell . Sc . 2 . Misery acquaints a man with
strange bedfellows . Ibid . Fer . Here's my hand . Mir . And mine , with my heart in '
t .
Here is everything advantageous to life . Ant . True ; save means to live . Act ï . Sc
. 1 . A very ancient and fish - like smell . Sc . 2 . Misery acquaints a man with
strange bedfellows . Ibid . Fer . Here's my hand . Mir . And mine , with my heart in '
t .
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So wise so young , they say , do never live long . " Kiny Richard III . Act iii . Sc . 1 .
Off with his head ! ? Sc . 4 . Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with
every nod to tumble down . Ibid . Even in the afternoon of her best days . Sc . 7 .
So wise so young , they say , do never live long . " Kiny Richard III . Act iii . Sc . 1 .
Off with his head ! ? Sc . 4 . Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with
every nod to tumble down . Ibid . Even in the afternoon of her best days . Sc . 7 .
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| Title | Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
| Compiled by | John Bartlett |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1894 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2014 |
| Length | 1158 pages |
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